Privatization! Drip. Drip. Drip. Another game to steal from our kids.
Often times I drive Southern California roads; and I am always grateful for our historical system of paying a tax on our gasoline to fund this infrastructure— state and federal highways and bridges. The tax which I pay when I buy gasoline is less than $0.02 per mile.
I try to avoid the toll roads. In south Orange County, the $6.00 toll approximates $1.00 per mile—fifty times the amount of public roads plus the $0.02 I’ve already paid, plus the administration effort to pay the fee on line because all they want is the profit while minimizing the service.
As a Nation, we are wealthy, as a government, we are broke. Thus, a new iteration of stealing from our kids, or ‘Starve the Beast’.
Privatization has floated the banner of ‘mother, God, and Apple pie’ while declaring that all government is bad. I prefer the $0.02 version of travel.
What privatization does is tricky. Private money is to be used to buy airports, roads, bridges, and maybe national parks. They put up the money, then they charge rent or fees. Part two is that the fees are increased with time. We have the resources: Apple alone has $700,000,000,000 ( .7 trillion) in cash, most of it stashed away in off-shore tax havens.
It’s time to stop stealing from our Kids!
